Many limited service hotels offer free breakfast, from Hampton Inn to Residence Inn to Best Western and Holiday Inn Express. Its very rare that Ive ever seen a hotel actually verify that youre a guest
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The head of one hotel loyalty program told me years ago that getting individual properties to comply with program rules was like a game of whack-a-mole. They couldnt monitor perfect compliance themse
IHG is entering the metaverse by offering NFTs for auction bundled with stays and benefits. Oddly, they spent actual money to create the NFTs engaging British contemporary artist Claire Luxton.
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Barclays adds transfer partners for its no longer available Arrival+ weird flex but ok.
The new Orchard at Doha airport, reminiscent of Singapore Changi.Now: I
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How hotels assign upgrades, by a former Marriott rooms manager (HT: Doctor of Credit) One reason hotels tend to upgrade on shorter stays beyond just easier av
Luxury hotels are more likely to post fake reviews than cheaper properties. That appears to be because people deciding on price are less influenced by reviews, while a decision to drop $500 or more p
Hyatt is adding adding Lindner Hotels to its portfolio converting most of the properties to the JdV brand.
JdV is a soft brand, with independent hotels able to affiliate without making substantial cha
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The people who collect air sickness bags
New malware that steals your credit card details
30% bonus transferring Chase points to Virgin through November 12. He
Several readers asked me yesterday what to make of IHG hotels systems being down. I figured its just poor IT and things will return to normal eventually. That remains true, but the hotel giant ackno
The City of Los Angeles will limit work hotel housekeepers have to do each day while also requiring hotels to return to daily housekeeping service. Hotels, though, say that housekeeping is bad for th
Choice Hotels is buying Radisson and I did not expect this.
Radisson Hotels was split into an Americas and an international company
Its owned by Jin Jiang, effectively Chinese government-backed, and t